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Whenever I get the opportunity for a vacation, my family and I invariably head north to one of the many idyllic towns and villages along the Salish Sea. Thus when a copy of the recently published “Views of the Salish Sea; One Hundred and Fifty Years of Change around the Strait of Georgia” arrived on my desk, you can imagine how delighted I was.

Back in 1971, Dan Jason published “Some Useful Wild Plants; A Foraging Guide to Food and Medicine From Nature,” a book that eventually sold over 30,000 copies and became one of the best known books on foraging for wild plants in Canada and the northern United States.